Gravity Resistance Total Body Workout Machine

ABSTRACT

My invention is a unique personal workout machine which provides total body fitness opportunities for users of every fitness level from moderate to elite by engaging virtually every muscle group in the body in a single workout session, simultaneously benefitting cardio, calves, thighs, buttocks, core, back, neck, shoulders, upper arms, forearms, grip and balance. 
     This invention&#39;s ability to provide such a comprehensive total body workout in a single workout session allows for substantially reduced workout time requirements. 
     The components of this invention are an enclosed cycling mechanism with pedals extended from the housing, situated upon a support structure and combined with a separate forward-extending adjustable extension supporting hand-grips and arm-cushions, the overall mechanism requiring that the user&#39;s body be supported by the arms during cycling in each of the allowable body orientations.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The Gravity Resistance Total Body Workout Machine is a personal fitness exercise machine which is designed to be an effective and time-saving option for weight loss, general fitness maintenance and improvement, or pursuit of elite fitness levels, by providing a true total body workout with exceptional overall fitness benefits in a wide range of session durations: from as little as one minute, to five minutes, to fifteen minutes and more.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Traditional personal exercise equipment provides benefits for certain muscle groups during a given workout session. These machines sometimes, though infrequently, also provide benefits for different muscle groups in separate workout sessions. The Gravity Resistance Total Body Workout Machine is designed to provide substantially increased total body muscle utilization in a single workout. This provides for a more efficient, thorough and effective workout while greatly reducing workout time requirements.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1) HORIZONTAL Orientation (arms extended)

FIG. 2) HORIZONTAL Orientation (arms bent, forearms resting on cushions)

FIG. 3) 45 DEGREE Orientation (arms extended)

FIG. 4) 45 DEGREE Orientation (arms bent, forearms resting on cushions)

FIG. 5) TOP VIEW (1—Base, 2—Pedals, 3—Support Structure, 4—Cushions, 5—Horizontal Hand Grips, 6—Vertical Hand Grips)

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The Gravity Resistance Total Body Workout Machine utilizes features of the traditional “exercycle” or “stationary bicycle” but enhances the workout benefits of these machines by dramatically changing the typical “VERTICAL” and “L-SHAPED (recumbent)” body orientations of the user to “HORIZONTAL (face down)” and “45 DEGREE” orientations (see drawings), resulting in a demonstrably more comprehensive “TOTAL BODY” workout.

Gravity is an important factor in this concept. This invention provides the great cardio benefits of traditional machines, but because of its unique body orientations, REQUIRING THAT THE BODY BE SUPPORTED BY THE ARMS DURING CYCLING, the exercise provides instant and dramatic ADDITIONAL muscle utilization requirements.

Significantly, this approach retains (and enhances) the benefit to cardio, calves, thighs, buttocks, and waist, while adding previously unobtainable simultaneous benefit to the back, neck, shoulders, upper arms, forearms, core, grip, and balance.

Because of the drastically different body orientations, there are only four points of contact between the user and the Gravity Resistance Total Body Workout Machine: two feet and two hands (or hands/forearms). There is no seat, so the full body musculature is constantly in a state, of engagement. Its design is simple, featuring the two atypical body orientations and adjustable cycling resistance options, but its efficiency is unmatched. 

1. What I claim as my invention is a design and machine which utilizes features of the traditional “exercycle” or “stationary bicycle” (such as foot and leg cycling capability combined with a hand-grip and forearm-cushion support structure): but with an overall structural design change which eliminates the seat and extends the hand-grip and forearm-cushion support structure forward to an extent which requires that the typical “VERTICAL” and “L-SHAPED (recumbent)” body orientations of the user change to “HORIZONTAL (face down)” or “45 DEGREE” orientations; with these new body orientations requiring that the body be supported by the arms during cycling and that the full body musculature remain in a constant state of engagement (see drawings), providing enhanced workout benefits for the total body combined with substantially reduced workout time requirements. The Gravity Resistance Total Body Workout Machine is a completely new, unique and hyper-efficient approach to imbuing the fitness enthusiast with his or her maximum potential strength, flexibility and stamina utilizing a core-centric but absolutely total-body approach, achievable at an unparalleled time-to-benefit ratio. 